Aegis Dental is going to build an office on the empty lot along Anchorage Road where Homer’s Hideaway bar once stood, but the Warsaw Traffic Commission Wednesday first had to decide where the ingress and egress to the business will be located.

City Planner Jeremy Skinner told the commission the new dental office was being proposed on Anchorage Road and U.S. 30.

“When we did that subdivision, the tricky part was that far lot. We put it in the subdivision with the intent of trying to keep additional traffic cuts off Anchorage Road. Although the entrance to that property is pretty close to the Anchorage Point (Drive)/Anchorage Road intersection, we felt that would still be safer than having multiple cuts onto Anchorage Road,” he said.

The dental office had requested a cut onto Anchorage Road. Skinner said the planning department talked to them about making that a right-in, right-out only as Skinner’s concern was the visibility for the truck traffic coming off U.S. 30 onto Anchorage when a car turned left out of the dental office parking lot.

Anchorage Point Drive goes back to Goodwill. Another cut from the dental office lot would connect to Anchorage Point and allow drivers to get out that way.

Matt Schuster, engineer with Jones Petrie Rafinski, representing the dental office, said if the only place the dental office could have full access was at Anchorage Point Drive, they also would want a right-in, right out on Anchorage Road.

A third option, he said, would be to have full access directly across from Shamrock Mobile Home Park.

After further discussion, Skinner said there was no great solution. Traffic Administrator and Warsaw Police Department Capt. Kip Shuter made a motion “to leave the cut at Anchorage Point Drive as is, but the cut on Anchorage Road on the east side of the property be a right-in only.” The motion was unanimously approved.

In other business, the Commission:

• Heard a westbound stop sign in the alley behind 315 N. Washington St. had been knocked down a couple of months ago, but it wasn’t replaced because there is no ordinance to cover the stop signs in that alley. A resident in the area wanted the sign replaced, and there is another stop sign at the intersection for northbound traffic.

The Commission voted not to re-install the westbound stop sign that had been knocked down, and it decided that if the northbound stop sign should fall it wouldn’t be replaced.

• Heard Dirk Felger resigned from the Commission as he has left Warsaw Community Schools and returned to Whitko Schools. As WCS’s director of buildings and grounds, Felger represented WCS on the traffic panel.

The school district’s Chief Academic Officer David Robertson will replace Felger on the Commission, but was absent from Wednesday’s meeting and therefore didn’t take the oath of office.